Mir-Hasan Kazim oglu Vazirov, also spelled Vezirov (; ; February 13, 1889 – September 20, 1918) was an Azerbaijani socialist revolutionary. Vazirov participated in revolutionary movements in the

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from his youth, for which he was persecuted by the authorities. Later on, he joined the

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and became one of the

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. He was the great grandson of Mirza Ali Muhammad Aga,

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Ibrahim Khalil Khan Ibrahim Khalil Khan Javanshir (, 1732–1806) was the second khan of the Karabakh Khanate from the Javanshir family. He was the son and successor of Panah-Ali khan Javanshir. Early life He was born in c. 1732 in Karabakh. He was among depo ...

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. Together with his cousin

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, they published a satirical magazine in

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in Shusha called ''Trickster''. Mir Hasan Vazirov's house in Karabakh was turned into a museum in

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Biography

Son of a

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, he was born in the city of

Shusha Shusha (, ) or Shushi () is a city in Azerbaijan, in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Situated at an altitude of 1,400–1,800 metres (4,600–5,900 ft) in the Karabakh mountains, the city was a mountain resort in the Soviet Union, Soviet ...

(then in

). During his years in secondary school, he joined the revolutionary movement and became a member of the

. From 1917, he worked with the

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and became one of the

of the Soviet Commune which was established in the city of

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after the

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. He was the People's Commissar of

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from May 1918, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Peasant Deputies of the district of Baku. On June 18, 1918, he authored a law that confiscated

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' land and transferred it to the

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who worked on it.

Death

When the Commune was toppled by the Centro Caspian Dictatorship, a British-backed coalition of

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and

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, Vazirov and his comrades were captured by

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and executed by a

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between the stations of Pereval and Akhcha-Kuyma of Transcaucasian Railroad.

References

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